Platform Stories: The Challenge of Getting Away From Caustic Media

The world loves misery, and sometimes it seems impossible to get away from it no matter how hard you try. What can you do?

Episode 234 – Semi-Retirement

Retirement used to mean flipping a switch to go from working to being completely financially independent, even if modestly, and not working at all.  Today there is an intermediate step to this process, it’s Semi-Retirement.  […]

Semi-Retirement

We don’t really fully retire anymore, but we do sort of half retire. What should we do during this Semi-Retirement?

Episode 233 – Should You Take Part In The Community System ?

The Community System includes elected positions, non-profits, businesses and every other type of organization that helps a community thrive.  Taking part today is very different than years past in that the risk is much greater.  […]

Should You Take Part in the Community System?

We can sit on the sidelines, or we can get involved in our communities. Should we? And if so, what is the best way?

Episode 232 – How Do You Know Where You Are?

It’s hard to get an unbiased sense of where we stand compared to others.  This show goes into one technique my brother used as child and one technique I use today.  In both cases, they […]

How Do You Know Where You Are?

When we are trying to wrap our heads around something, we compare the unknown to the known. For my brother he compares things to tackle boxes. For me, it’s something else.

Episode 231 – The Law of Convenience Redux: Convenience Always Wins

The Law of Convenience is almost akin to a law of physics or nature that you can almost never get around.  Here is another example of how I ultimately walked away from something important to […]

The Law of Convenience Redux: Convenience Always Wins

Even a project that I toiled over for years lost out to the rule of convenience, because Convenience always wins. Always.

Episode 230 – How Can You Come To Terms That You Aren’t A Good Fit For Your Job?

Some people spend a large part of their lives working in a job that their personality simply isn’t a good fit for.  Yet, emotions like fear or career inertia keep them in that same type […]